(CNN) — Seventeen Pakistani soldiers who were kidnapped last week are shown beheaded in a video released by the Taliban.
A senior Pakistani military official confirmed to CNN that the bodies shown in the video, their identifications flashed before the camera as evidence, indeed belonged to members of the Pakistani army and a Pakistani paramilitary force.
Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan provided the video, which restates the militants’ goals — to sever Pakistan’s alliance with the United States and to bring sharia law to Pakistan.
The names of the dead are recited in the video.
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